1 Peter 2:13-17 'Freedom' has spawned all sorts of activities or involvement in them. Both Peter and Paul challenged the recipients of their letters to be careful in how they used the freedom they had in Christ.
Peter's concern was that under the guise of freedom, evil would be justified. We haven't really been in the situation Peter refers to. It seems some of his readers used their Christian freedom as a 'cover up for' or 'excuse for evil' in relation to the government. Whatever their activity it dishonored others, showed no love for their fellow believers, in essence thumbed their noses at God and dishonored the government whom God had put in place. Instead our freedom ought to produce actions that would silence the ignorance of foolish people. In other words, true freedom is accompanied by true wisdom- the wisdom from above. James 3:17-18
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